Art on Film | `Black Art: In the Absence of Light

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Thu Apr 24 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC-04:00

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Sarasota Art Museum | Sarasota, FL

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Put the art world in focus with Art on Film at SAM
About this Event

Put the art world in focus with Art on Film at SAM. Join us for award-winning documentaries, short films, and biopics that highlight some of our favorite artists, reveal untold histories, and explore what it takes to make it as an artist today. Each screening will include opportunities for discussion and connection among audience members.


Black Art: In the Absence of Light (2021)
Directed by Sam Pollard
Running Time: 86 minutes
At the heart of this feature documentary is the groundbreaking “Two Centuries of Black American Art” exhibition curated by the late African American artist and scholar David Driskell in 1976. Held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this pioneering exhibit featured more than 200 works of art by 63 artists and cemented the essential contributions of Black artists in America in the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibit would eventually travel to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Brooklyn Museum. The film shines a light on the exhibition’s extraordinary impact on generations of African American artists who have staked a claim on their rightful place within the 21st-century art world.



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